The show will feature around 100 maps from the library’s collection of over 4 million cartographic items. These will include some of most impressive, beautiful and largest maps ever created, many of them on display for the first time. The exhibition will place the maps in their original settings and reveal why these maps were designed for propaganda, as art or to convey power and influence.

The collection will include the 1.75m (5ft) tall, 350 year old Klencke Atlas.